The Red Mansions

Chapter 210 Jia Yun: I want to taste the rouge on my aunt's mouth
Jia Yun's eyes lit up and she stopped.

Today, Tanchun is extraordinarily well dressed.

She is tall, with slender shoulders and a thin waist, with a beautiful and dignified demeanor.

Duck egg face, slender eyebrows.

The eyes are handsome and pretty, the eyes are piercing, the spirit is full, the spirit is high, and the temperament is refined.

Regardless of her appearance or temperament, she can make people shine.

Jia Tanchun's eyes lit up when he saw Jia Yun.

I haven't seen her in nearly a year, and Jia Yun is more calm than before, with sword eyebrows and star eyes, majestic appearance, gentle and elegant, chic and suave, extraordinary!
"Minister Jia has met Master Jia!" Jia Tanchun stepped forward, bowed and saluted with a smile.

Jia Yun patted her forehead and said angrily, "Don't make trouble, you should call me nephew, I'll feel better that way!"

Jia Tanchun dodged to the side, but did not dodge.

She giggled, with bright eyes and white teeth, and a beautiful appearance, and asked:

"Why did you come here? Oh, are you going to sister-in-law's?"

She looked at the direction Jia Yun and Heping'er were heading in, and suddenly realized.

Jia Yun nodded and said with a smile: "Brother Lang is studying at Qingshan Academy, my sister-in-law invited me to come over and let me take a test of Brother Lang's reading progress by the way."

"As expected of a great master, in just a few years, he was able to test and teach other people's knowledge!" Jia Tanchun said with a smile.

Jia Yun scolded with a smile: "Young yin and yang are weird, can you speak well?"

"Hey, let's go, let's go, my nephew is going to be in a hurry, so my aunt won't make fun of you!" Jia Tanchun covered his mouth and chuckled.

Then, she stretched out her delicate jade hand, and lightly fanned her flushed face.

Now that they were getting closer, Jia Yun took another careful look at her.

Her pupils were clear and bright, her eyebrows were curved, and her long eyelashes trembled slightly.

Her fair and flawless skin was light pink, her nose was small and exquisite, and her thin lips were as delicate as rose petals.

Seeing Jia Yun sizing her up carefully, Jia Tanchun showed a shy face, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and continued:
"Sister-in-law is going to accompany the guests. I'm afraid I won't be able to come back for a while. How about my nephew come to my room?"

Jia Yun shook her head and said, "Thank you, aunt, for your kindness, but this is the inner courtyard after all, so it's inappropriate for me to go to your room."

Jia Tanchun nodded, and said the best thing to do: "Forget it, let me take you to sister-in-law's yard!"

"Then I'll trouble Auntie." Jia Yun was also not polite, and thanked her with cupped hands.

Jia Tanchun smiled at him and led the way.

The three huts are next to Li Wan's courtyard, and it's not a few steps away, so we will arrive soon.

There is no one in Li Wan's courtyard at the moment.

Jia Tanchun ordered her servant girls, Shi Shu and Cui Mo, to go into the house and bring out the chairs and tea table, and place them in the courtyard under the shade of a big tree.

Then let the two servant girls go back to Baoxia to fetch some cakes and tea.

"You're welcome, aunt. Don't bother me so much. I'll leave after a while." Jia Yun smiled.

Jia Tanchun smiled and said, "My nephew won't come here easily. It's only reasonable for me, my aunt, to invite you to drink a few cups of tea."

As she said that, she looked at Ping'er, smiled and said: "Sister Ping'er, if you are busy at the moment, you can go back first, and I can just talk with my nephew here."

Ping'er hesitated, looked at Jia Yun, saw him nodding silently, so he smiled and said:
"Alright, then thank you Miss Tan, I'm really busy right now, so I'll go back first."

After Ping'er left, Jia Yun asked, "Auntie is leaving the table so early? Don't you need to entertain guests?"

"We juniors, how are we qualified to entertain guests? So we came back early to rest." Jia Tanchun shook his head and replied.

At this time, Shi Shu and Cui Mo brought pastries and tea.

Jia Tanchun poured a cup of tea for Jia Yun himself, handed it over, and asked with a smile, "What's it like to be an official, isn't it awesome?"

"Prestige is there, but no matter how majestic, don't you want to call me aunt when I see you?" Jia Yun stretched out her hand to take the tea, and squeezed Jia Tanchun's fingers without any trace.

Jia Tanchun trembled all over, his cheeks turned red, his eyes flickered, he lowered his head and bit his lips and said:

"I'm just kidding you. Although we both have the surname Jia, we are separated by hundreds of thousands of miles. You don't need to call me aunt."

"Then what are you calling? Third girl? Spying on a girl? Would it be rude?" Jia Yun smirked.

Jia Tanchun raised his head and gave him a white look, and said, "You know it's impolite. If you really don't want to call me aunt, it's fine to call Miss Tanchun."

Jia Yun shook her head and smiled, "Forget it, I think it's interesting to call you aunt."

"Up to you." Jia Tanchun gritted his teeth and said.

After a pause, she smiled and said, "I talked to Sister Bao for a while in the morning. She is pregnant with a child now, and she should be able to give birth within this year, right?"

Jia Yun pondered and said: "The end of the twelfth lunar month, the first month of the first month, maybe."

Jia Tanchun nodded and sighed: "In just a few years, seeing you all getting married and having children, I realized that I stayed in the courtyard without changing anything, and came here in a daze."

"What's the point? Two or three years at the latest, don't you want to talk about marriage?" Jia Yun said.

Jia Tanchun sighed and said, "I'm a daughter of a concubine, and I don't know what the future holds."

"The boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge. Don't think too much now, it will only increase your troubles. Anyway, even if you want to talk about marriage, you can't make the decision yourself, right?" Jia Yun smiled.

Jia Tanchun replied: "That's a good statement, but why not worry?"

"So at this time, I feel both apprehensive and uneasy about the future, and I am also extremely confused. I can't express my anxiety."

Jia Yun glanced at her, nodded and said, "Auntie, if you need my help, please speak up."

Jia Tanchun shook his head and said, "I have nothing to trouble you for now."

"Originally, I planned to ask you to help take care of Jia Huan, but when I think about his unscrupulous temperament, I think I'll wait until he's older."

After all, she and Jia Yun were just acquaintances, and their friendship was shallow.

Jia Yun also understood that although the two were talking and laughing, they just met by chance, so they didn't answer the conversation.

So he changed the subject and asked, "Auntie, do you know where Baochai and the others are at the moment?"

Jia Tanchun said with a slight smile: "Sister Bao and Sister Lin are with the old lady. The old lady hasn't seen them for a long time, so she wanted to talk to them more, so she left them behind."

Jia Yun worried: "Baochai is pregnant now and needs to rest at noon, how can she stay with the old lady all the time?"

"Don't worry, the old lady has a place to rest, and she won't tire Sister Bao." Jia Tanchun reassured.

Jia Yun: "Aunt Yingchun and Aunt Xichun are also together?"

"They came back with me, and they will rest in the room." Jia Tanchun shook his head.

Jia Yun pondered: "Seeing that you were going out just now, do you have something to do?"

"It's nothing. I planned to go to my wife's place to have a look, but I don't want to go." Jia Tanchun replied.

Jia Yun asked curiously, "I heard that you have always been raised by your aunt's side?"

Mrs. Wang and Xue Wang are sisters.

If someone from the Jia family called, Jia Yun couldn't call Mrs. Wang's aunt, after all, Jia Zheng was several generations older than him.

But Jia's house is separated from him, and Xue Wang's is closer.

So it was not wrong for him to follow Xue Baochai to call Mrs. Wang's aunt.

But people like Jia Zheng and Jia Baoyu couldn't shout after Xue Baochai, but Xue Baochai wanted to shout after him.

Jia Tanchun pursed his lips, nodded helplessly and said: "As long as I can remember, I have been raised by my wife's side, and I still call her mother, but my own mother can only be called Auntie."

Jia Yun nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

Jia Tanchun judged the situation, and Mrs. Wang was the aunt, so it was right to call her mother, as all rich families did.

But as far as Jia Yun knew, Jia Huan usually called Aunt Zhao, not Aunt Zhao, but mother.

Moreover, Jia Zheng acquiesced to this, and even Madam Wang didn't say anything.

It can be seen from this that Aunt Zhao does have a few brushes.

Don't look at her bluffing, even for a small matter, she can fight with the servant girl regardless of face, which is very embarrassing.

But as an aunt, in the intriguing environment of the inner house, she was able to raise Jia Tanchun and Jia Huan safely, which is a real skill.

The breeze blows, bringing bursts of coolness.

No wonder Li Wan likes to sit under this big tree and read a book, it is indeed a good place to make people feel peaceful.

Jia Yun and Jia Tanchun drank tea and didn't speak for a while.

Jia Tanchun glanced at Jia Yun from time to time, with a smile on his mouth, thinking that after Jia Yun became an official, her temperament changed, but her temper remained the same, and she was quite easy to deal with.

Jia Yun glanced at Jia Tanchun's red lips, and suddenly asked curiously: "I heard that Uncle Bao often eats your rouge, is there such a thing?"

Jia Tanchun was stunned for a moment, his face turned red, and he pursed his lips. Seeing Jia Yun looking at her with piercing eyes, he rolled his eyes and asked:
"There are so many maids in your family, don't you often eat their rouge?"

Jia Yun shook her head and said, "My maid has never applied rouge before."

This is true, because Xue Baochai likes to dress plainly at home.

Other aunts or maidservants naturally have to follow her example, being independent will be annoying.

In addition, as long as it is a woman who has followed Jia Yun, there will be more or less a stream of air on her body. Taking care of the body is much more effective than applying makeup.

Therefore, the female family members of Jia Yun's family are also used to living without makeup or makeup.

Jia Tanchun thought for a while, and found that the female relatives who came to Jia Yun's place today were indeed not covered in makeup, and they were dressed more elegantly, but this did not hinder their beauty.

When she came back to her senses, she was about to speak when she suddenly noticed that Jia Yun was staring straight at her mouth.

Jia Tanchun's heart trembled, he opened his mouth, his face was flushed, hot and shy.

"You...don't look at me like that, you're so ashamed." After a while, Jia Tanchun reminded weakly.

Taking a sneak peek at Jia Yun, he saw that not only did he not listen to the persuasion, but his eyes were full of fire.

Jia Tanchun's mouth was dry, and he took a sip of tea from his teacup to hide his panic.

At this time, Jia Yun sighed: "I really want to taste what rouge tastes like."

"There are so many girls in your family, let them smear it when you go back." Jia Tanchun lowered his head and held his teacup, whispering.

Jia Yun shook her head and said, "No, that's too deliberate, I want to taste the rouge on my aunt's little mouth..."

(End of this chapter)